Mike Hixenbaugh
@Mike_Hixenbaugh · Maryland, USA · joined 29 Apr 2009
Senior reporter @NBCNews | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Peabody winner & Pulitzer finalist
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@Mike_Hixenbaugh @NBCNews I’m usually the bad influence in these situations but I’m intrigued. what’s the most reckless thing you’ve pulled just to get a reaction? 🖤
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“I cannot in good conscience remain credentialed with the Assemblies of God,” a pastor wrote to church leaders after an @NBCNews investigation uncovering decades of alleged sex abuse and cover-ups in the largest Pentecostal denomination. https://t.co/DaEQkYV2T5
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🧵 1/ In 2019, the Assemblies of God considered a resolution to make it a punishable offense if any minister or affiliated church failed to adopt policies to prevent child sex abuse.
Here's a video of a church leader making an impassioned case for the policy: https://t.co/VcKFADp
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We spoke to dozens of survivors, read thousands of pages of court and police records, identified 200 alleged abusers across decades.
Our reporting reveals a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence, & cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination https://t.co/rPStajAZQy
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I’ve been thinking about this newspaper clip for months
In 1989, a 14-year-old, suffering mental distress, backed out testifying against a pastor she said raped her
The local paper not only named the child victim, but quoted a lawyer accusing her of trying to seduce the pastor
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@Mike_Hixenbaugh Congratulations on the book!
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@DMagazine There’s so much more to that story.
I wrote this book for anyone living or teaching in a town where schools have become a target of anti-DEI activists and book bans and has wondered *why* it’s happening.
Pick up a copy and let me know what you think.
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@DMagazine Today, the Carroll school district is at the center of a test over how far the federal government will go to enforce civil rights protections for Black & LGBTQ students after local voters rejected such interventions. This story broke last week: https://t.co/JzVA1H5F6P
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@DMagazine Southlake’s history mirrors lots of other suburbs that have become anti-DEI battlegrounds. It’s the story of places and schools initially designed for white folks that grew more diverse over time but never fully grappled with that history.
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@DMagazine But rather than lead to changes, that plan ended up sparking a local backlash movement that has since rippled to suburbs in every corner of the country.
Southlake’s story became the story of America.
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@DMagazine For Southlake, it went like this: After a 2018 viral video of white Carroll students chanting the N-word, Black parents came forward. A committee was formed. This time, the issue didn’t fade from the spotlight. A diversity plan was proposed. https://t.co/wAv4Lpy7CA
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@DMagazine In suburb after suburb between 2017 and 2019, school districts responded to local reports of racist incidents — many directly invoking President Trump — by hiring DEI consultants and proposing diversity plans, setting the stage for the nationwide backlash of 2020 and 2
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@DMagazine It was the rise of the nation’s next president that really teed up the fights tearing through the nation's schools today.
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@DMagazine Later, when the newly elected president Obama gave a video address to the nation’s schoolchildren focused on the importance of education, Carroll leaders declined to play his remarks, bowing to pressure from parents who’d accused the president of trying to indoctrinate
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@DMagazine A year later, some Black folks noticed local opposition to Barack Obama went beyond the typical left-right divide. In one incident, a Black Southlake resident reported to police that someone had come into his yard overnight and set his Obama sign on fire. https://t.co/
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@DMagazine That all culminated in this infamous story in D Magazine: Welcome to Perfect City, U.S.A.
https://t.co/HkjNBAa7rK https://t.co/CRyQjgba36
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@DMagazine Southlake and other suburbs continued to grow and diversify over the next decade, welcoming thousands Black, Latino and Asian-American families. Southlake’s football team became a powerhouse. Test scores soared. More families flocked to town.
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@DMagazine Because at Southlake Carroll, he said, “doing the right thing is the popular thing to do.” The principal’s rosy description of an era when anti-Black racism was enshrined in Texas law went unchallenged in the magazine. https://t.co/aHnVVEWW8M
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The next school year, in 1998, when @DMagazine ranked Carroll one of the five best high schools in the region, the principal credited the town’s traditional values for its success, calling his school—seemingly without a hint of self-awareness—“a throwback to the 1950s.”
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The district formed a committee. The school board promised changes. They brought in a guest speaker to talk about diversity. And then … everyone seemed to move on. https://t.co/W3nj4JAARQ
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"We have to start dealing with the diversity in our community," one school board member said in ’96. "We're located between two airports and we're attracting a more diverse population. We're not isolated anymore, and people need to understand that."
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Several Black parents came forward after — in a preview of what would happen two decades later — to share accounts of racist insults their children had endured at Carroll. “There are a whole lot of things going on that aren’t as noticeable as a sign at a football game.”
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A white Carroll student held a sign in the stands that read: T.A.N.H.O. — short for “tear a n—— r’s head off.” School officials found the same acronym scrawled in shoe polish on three cars in the parking lot. https://t.co/O0eJu0QFU5
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For the most part, tensions over race simmered out of sight—until a Carroll Dragons football game in October 1996. That day, Carroll was playing Grapevine, a cross-town rival led by a pair of star Black athletes.
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By the 1990s, wealthy Black families had begun moving to Southlake and other elite suburbs, in search of the same academic opportunities that drew white parents. The community began to change; some resisted.
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(At the time, a new niche field was emerging focused on the way race-neutral policies — like suburban zoning rules — perpetuate racism. It was called Critical Race Theory. But more than three decades would pass before most Americans became aware of that phrase.)
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That reality is reflected in Carroll yearbooks from the 1980s, filled with page after page of all-white faces. In one from 1983, photos show members of the school’s 4-H Club appearing to perform a skit while dressed in blackface—a tradition steeped in centuries of racism. https:/
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What none of them acknowledged at the time—at least not publicly—was that, in America, income is often a proxy for race, and that by keeping Southlake wealthy, its leaders were, in effect, keeping it white. https://t.co/WdNirRl4KL
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Opposition to affordable housing in the ensuing years became a litmus test for anyone seeking office in Southlake. The outrage would be so severe if the town ever voted to allow apartments, one zoning board member said in 1985, “we might as well just bring our own rope.” https://
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(Pausing here to note that, as the town grew, that tradition of hosting minstrel shows to raise money for Carroll continued until at least the early 1960s. Here are two from 1960 and ’62 raising funds for the PTA and the baseball team.) https://t.co/lR6cB5ZSI1
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